compassionate - Story 20424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glossy paper felt strangely out of place in David's calloused hands. He read the invitation again, the names of his former classmates echoing in his mind. He wasn't sure he wanted to go, but he knew he should. He thought about the shy boy in the back of math class, and how he never fit in.

He decided that he would help out. He emailed the organizers, offering his services as a photographer. He wanted to capture moments, to make sure everyone felt seen.

During the reunion, he walked around with his camera, snapping photos. He made sure to take extra pictures of the people who seemed to be alone. He took his time with each shot. He smiled encouragingly at everyone he met.

Emotion: compassionate

Cluster: Compassion / Love

PC1 (Valence): 3.19 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 1.62

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion compassionate. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 compassionate stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the compassionate emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the compassionate vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.811
`B`	0.618
`H`	0.550
`sympat`	0.422
`latter`	0.422

Suppressed:

`此刻`	-0.519
`не`	-0.514
`솟`	-0.446
`désormais`	-0.446
`仿佛`	-0.444